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An amalgam of two recipes

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Why am  I so obsessed with the number 2 these days?  Is it having two sons? Anyway July's challenge was baking egg free lamington.  Gayathri chose David Leobovitz's blog, one of my favourite dessert sources, so I did not try any hacking or adaptations of my own;  I simply made my favourite egg free sponge and then made the icing as per David's website.  The results? Awesome! the delectable lamingtons the Lamingtons deshabille ;) lovely crumb. poor fotos. BRU instant for coffee flavour the only alcohol i can stand. in milk!!! the chocolate frosting toasted coconut   One tiny change which I made and loved is adding a coffee flavour to the icing and the cakes.  Also I baked my cake in a round pan - no square pan at home. Vanilla Coffee Sponge Adapted from Sharmee's passion 1 1/2 cups maida 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup homemade curd 1 teaspoon vanilla essence 1 tablespoon Kahlua (hub...